Authors: Hua Wu ShanNing Zhang FuWen Wei
Publish Date: 2009/04/10
Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 1215-1217
Abstract
Since the number and range of Asiatic black bear Ursus thibetanus are declining due to habitat loss and illegal trade it is essential to take effective actions to reinforce the conservation of the remaining bear populations In order to aid such conservation efforts we developed 12 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci of Asiatic black bear from genomic DNAenriched libraries in this paper The number of alleles per locus in 24 individuals ranged from 3 to 10 the average observed heterozygosity per locus from 0214 to 0950 and the average expected heterozygosity per locus from 0243 to 0891 Eight loci followed Hardy–Weinberg expectations after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons No significant linkage association was found among all these loci The 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci will be helpful to the conservation of the Asiatic black bear
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